Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance; he had to return, humiliated to Bangkok. Three years later, Thieu-in what he described as part of a move toward national reconciliation-invited Minh back to Saigon. There Minh bided his time, tending the orchid garden at his spacious villa and meeting regularly with many of South Viet Nam's dissident politicians and religious leaders...
...significant when compared to Eve's (Debby Rayson's) inability to find a register in which her troublesome voice will be content to stay. Eve weasels her way into Adam's hut, and finally into his heart, but not before they are both driven out of the garden by the Snake (David Cohen), dressed in white tie and black tails, who solves his vocal problem by not singing in any register...
...clowning; David Porter, who is blind and is studying for a master's degree in social work, teaches several different stringed instruments. Some teach without pay; others negotiate a fee with their students. Grace Jaffe, a retired sociology professor, teaches French to four teenagers, who tend her vegetable garden in return. Says she: "The young people seem to learn more outside the high school system...
...touch of England in the colonies? Ah, very good. Henley-on-the-Charles? Pip pip. A return to the grande old days of rowing. Well, amid the flowers, flowing garden dresses, boaters and blazers buzzing around Newell Boathouse today the Radcliffe crew will shove off in defense of its Greater Boston Championship. The 'Cliffe will be facing shells from B.U., MIT and Wellesley...
...solely out of righteous indignation for not having been appreciated earlier. Recently she's become pretty candid about what was actually in those contracts: insultingly poor roles, old productions, or performance dates that Bing knew conflicted with her commitments to sing elsewhere--in one instance, her debut at Covent Garden...